Hi Bobbie, <br><br>Thanks for this really interesting read. I find it amazing that the iPhone generates more revenue than all of Microsoft's ware combined. That is difficult to fathom. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Bobbie Sellers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com" target="_blank">bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
At a recent meeting John Strazzarino asked a question about that ugly company and this is where<br>
I got the information to reply to him.<br>
It was originally a post on my Team Amiga Mailing List.<br>
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Analyzing one of American corporate history’s greatest mysteries—the lost decade of Microsoft—two-time George Polk Award winner (and V.F.’s newest contributing editor) Kurt Eichenwald traces the “astonishingly foolish management decisions” at the company that “could serve as a business-school case study on the pitfalls of success.” Relying on dozens of interviews and internal corporate records—including e-mails between executives at the company’s highest ranks—Eichenwald offers an unprecedented view of life inside Microsoft during the reign of its current chief executive, Steve Ballmer, in the August issue. Today, a single Apple product—the iPhone—generates more revenue than all of Microsoft’s wares combined.<br>

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I know this is a Linux mailing list but I think keeping up with the big ugly company<br>
is a healthy thing to do. By the way on the new Windows 8 they have made using<br>
the ugly blocky interface mandatory rather than letting it be bypassed by the user.<br>
<<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-said-to-block-ability-to-boot-straight-to-desktop-in-windows-8-7000002219/" target="_blank">http://www.zdnet.com/<u></u>microsoft-said-to-block-<u></u>ability-to-boot-straight-to-<u></u>desktop-in-windows-8-<u></u>7000002219/</a> ><br>

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Reading up on the specs such as they are for the Surface I learned that they have the regular<br>
model with multicore ARM. This means that secure boot cannot be bypassed. That stricture on<br>
ARM appliances using Microsoft was already announced.<br>
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The Surface Pro comes with much more RAM and a 4-core i5 processor so I guess it might<br>
be more susceptible to alternative FOSS operating systems. I have to wonder what sort of<br>
battery life that might afford. But so far no specs for the display or the battery life on any model.<br>
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What they are showing about the Surface might as well be computer generated images.<br>
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Bobbie Sellers<br>
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